Grand Rounds Schedule

Location: Online (via Zoom)

Date/Time: Thursdays, 10:30 am to Noon

Fall 2023

Date	Presenter(s) & Discussant(s)	Title of Presentation
September 14th, 2023	Jeffrey Akman, MD Interim Chair Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Amir Afkhami, MD, PhD Director of Medical Education Program Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs Professor of Psychiatry Benedicto Borja, MD Director of Residency Training Program Assistant Professor of Psychiatry	"Update: GW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health"
September 21st, 2023	Gerald P. Perman, MD Clinical Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health GWU School of Medicine	“Jacques Lacan: The Best and Least Known Psychoanalyst”
September 28th, 2023	Sierra Carter, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Georgia State University	Jerry M. Wiener, MD Endowed Lecture for Psychiatric Education "Black People Deserve to Grow Old: Racial Trauma, Accelerated Aging, and the Promotion of Health Equity-Focused Research"
October 5th, 2023	Stevan M. Weine, MD Professor of Psychiatry & Director, Center for Global Health University of Illinois College of Medicine	“Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness”
October 19th, 2023	James L. Griffith, MD Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Vice Chair for Education George Washington University	Case Review Conference
October 26th, 2023	George J. Makari, MD Director DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry History, Policy, and the Arts, Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University	Daniel Prager, MD Endowed Lecture in Psychoanalysis “Of Fear and Strangers: On the Problem of Xenophobia.”
November 2nd, 2023	Samuel O. Okpaku, MD, PhD President & Founder Center for Health, Culture and Society Nashville Clinical Professor of Psychiatry George Washington University	“Revisiting Global Mental Health Implications for Humanitarian and Ethics”
November 9th, 2023	Chynere Best, PhD Senior Research Associate Center for Global Mental Health EQUITY The George Washington University	"Integrating Global Mental Health Interventions into Community-Based Organizations in New York City: Challenges and Opportunities for the DC Area"
November 16th, 2023	TBD	TBD
November 30th, 2023	Henry R. Kranzler, MD Karl E. Rickels Professor of Psychiatry Director, Center for Studies of Addiction University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	“Studies of Substance Use Disorders in the Million Veterans Program”
December 7th, 2023	Mark Olfson, MD, MPH Elizabeth K Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law Professor of Epidemiology Columbia University Irving Medical Center Research Psychiatrist New York State Psychiatric Institute	Seymour Perlin, MD Endowed Lecture for Suicidology “Suicide Risks of US Health Care Workers”
December 14th, 2023	Robin Toler, MD Medical Director of Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit George Washington University Hospital Assistant Professor of Psychiatry George Washington University Andrew Matz, MD Inpatient Psychiatrist George Washington University Hospital Assistant Professor of Psychiatry George Washington University	Case Review Conference

Accreditation

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing education for physicians. The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences designates this continuing medical education activity for 1.5 credit hours in Category 1 of the Physicians' Recognition Award of the American Medical Association. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

CME certificates will not be issued on an activity-by-activity basis. However, a transcript of CME credits earned through GW grand rounds may be requested from the Office of Continuing Education in the Health Professions by calling 202-994-4285.